Finding Your Purpose

In this talk, energy intuitive and spiritual awakening guide Marie Blythe shares insights she has learned through her own spiritual journey and through communication with her spirit guides about the nature of purpose, what our purpose is, and how to live through that purpose. She shares why the idea of finding our purpose is commonly misunderstood and offers a new perspective and insights as to how purpose unfolds in each of our lives. You'll learn how to identify when purpose is unfolding in your life, the 5 stage process of purpose that we each go through, and actions steps for navigating your own purpose journey in a conscious way.

Transcript

Hello beautiful souls.

I'm energy intuitive and teacher Marie Blythe and I am so happy to have you here today.

In my work I use my intuitive gifts to bring insight,

Higher wisdom,

And healing to life challenges,

Life changes,

And limitations that dedicated self healers and spiritual seekers like yourself might be experiencing.

And in my talks here I share some of the lessons that I've learned myself from my spirit guides over the years that have helped me on my own healing journey.

And I do this with the hope of igniting some aha moments for you and helping you connect more deeply with your own inner truth.

So today I wanted to talk to you about a topic that a lot of people are trying to pursue,

Trying to figure out for themselves.

And this is an answer to the question,

How do I find my purpose?

What is my purpose?

Why am I here?

What am I supposed to be doing?

And this is a question that so many of us are trying to answer for ourselves and it's something that I've certainly struggled with over the years.

And I've gained a lot of really helpful perspectives from my guides and I wanted to share some of those with you with the hope of maybe broadening your perspective a little bit and helping you navigate this journey of purpose a little bit more easily.

So let's dive into it.

So the first thing that my guides taught me was a really simple concept because when I was looking for my purpose I was always trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing.

And I always made it about doing.

And just like many of us and because of my own upbringing and cultural programming and all of these different things,

I always felt like my purpose had to be my job.

That it had to be about a career because this is what we're brought up thinking our purpose is is to be working or contributing to the world through our work.

But that's not necessarily the case.

So the first thing that my guides taught me is that purpose is about being,

Not doing.

The actions that we take and the things that we do are avenues for expressing our purpose but the actions themselves are not our purpose.

They are just an avenue for that.

So this is a very simple shift but a very significant one as well because if your focus is primarily on what you're supposed to be doing,

You could be missing how purpose is showing up in your life in all kinds of other ways that don't involve the work that you're doing or the actions that you're taking.

We can find purpose in just sitting down and being with ourselves in the quiet.

We can find purpose in a conversation that we have with a friend or loved one,

Right?

So if it's not about the doing,

Then what exactly is our purpose?

And this is something that was a real awakening moment for me was when my guide shared with me that purpose is a bit of a paradox.

That our purpose is the same for everyone.

Everyone has the same purpose and at the same time we each have a unique purpose.

So how does this play out?

How does this work?

How could we all have the same purpose?

Well what they told me was that we all have the purpose to authentically create and that's it.

Every single one of us,

That is our purpose,

Is to create through our most authentic expression of self.

So take that in for a moment because that's a really big concept but it's also very simple as well.

It's something that you know maybe we've been seeking our purpose for a long time and this whole time we all have the same purpose to authentically create.

But we are each a unique being with unique skills,

With unique knowledge,

With unique gifts,

With unique soul experiences and wisdom.

And so we bring that very unique expression of ourselves into our life with us.

And so while we all have the same purpose of authentically creating or creating through our most authentic expression,

Our authentic expression is very unique to each of us and there is no other person on this earth that has the same authentic expression as you do.

So that is how it's different for everyone and also the same for everyone at the same time.

And so what's really interesting about this concept is that if we all have a very unique expression,

Then that means that no matter what we do or how we show up in our lives,

If we are creating through our authentic expression the same activity that someone else might be doing,

We're bringing something new to it.

So a lot of people struggle with this idea of,

Well I really would like to do that thing but it's already been done before or so many other people are doing that thing and what could I possibly have to contribute to that?

What you're contributing to the action is your unique authentic expression,

Your unique vibration.

And so that makes it a unique doing.

And so that's how our unique purpose is expressed through our actions,

Is by bringing our unique vibration into any action that we do.

So if you're questioning or if you've told yourself,

Oh I shouldn't be doing something because so many other people have done it,

But they haven't done it your way.

They haven't done it through your energy and your energy will bring a unique vibration to it that will be a gift to all of the people that come into contact with whatever this thing is.

Whether it's a creation,

A piece of art,

Music,

Could be a business that you create,

It could be a conversation that you have,

It could be an experience that you have,

It could be so many different ways that you experience life.

But you're doing it through your unique expression,

Your unique energy and vibration.

And that is the gift.

So the purpose and your gift that you bring into your life is you.

So you don't have to go out there and find it somewhere.

It's already in you.

It already is you.

And you bring you into everything that you do when you express yourself authentically.

And that is purpose.

Okay?

So another interesting point here that my guides made for me was to explain that purpose is not an ending.

It's not the end of a journey of finding something.

And we're often always out there looking for our purpose,

Trying to find it,

Right?

Figure out what it is.

And what they shared with me was that we are always in a process of purpose.

And this process of purpose has different phases to it.

And so if we're trying to find our purpose,

It's really likely that we're already living our purpose.

And we're just in a phase of purpose or a phase of living our purpose that isn't what we really want to be in.

Okay?

It's not what we think of as uplifting.

So let's go over what these different phases are.

And there are five of them.

And we all go through these different phases to different degrees.

And it takes a different amount of time for each of us to go through each of these phases.

But these phases are all part of the human journey and living out our human purpose here.

So the first phase is unconscious experiencing.

And what this phase means is that we come into this human life.

And we're sort of covered up in all of this programming that comes from our experience that we're born into.

So ancestral programming,

Cultural programming,

Programming that comes from our experiences.

And we live through that.

We're taught different things by others.

And we live through that for a period of time.

And much of this programming that we've inherited,

That we come into,

Depending on where we live,

What family we grow up in,

And all of those kind of things,

Shape our life,

Shape our early life,

Especially.

And for a while,

We think,

Well,

This is just how it is.

And we might be happy,

And we might be not so happy.

But we're having an experience that's largely shaped by culture,

Our ancestors,

Our relatives,

Our caregivers,

Our very early experiences,

And the different beliefs and programming that come from outside of ourselves.

Eventually,

We get to phase two.

And this is the awakening phase where we awaken to the possibility that there's a different option or a different way of being than what we've been programmed to think.

So we start to often become unhappy,

Or we have a challenge of some kind,

Or we realize,

Oh,

I don't really want to be doing or living my life in the way that I'm living it.

Or there's something else that I'd like to be doing.

And we maybe have this aha moment of,

Oh,

There's a different way.

Or this thing that I thought was me really isn't me.

And I'm different than that.

And so we start this process of awakening to possibility.

And this can be actually a uplifting phase,

Because now there's a different option,

Or we recognize that we can make different choices that we didn't realize were even possible in phase one.

And so this can be a really uplifting phase.

And when we're in this phase,

We can actually really start to tune in to what really lights us up in life.

And this is a clue that you're doing something through your authentic expression or a little bit more aligned with your authentic expression.

If you feel really lit up,

Or really uplifted by a certain activity that you're doing or experience that you're having,

And this is a sign that you're more aligned with your authentic expression.

So phase two is a phase of awakening.

It's a phase of understanding that there's more possibilities than what we ever thought.

It's a phase of recognizing that everything's connected and that we have choice and that we can change things and do things differently.

But then we start to move into phase three.

And this is the shedding phase.

And this is the phase that you might be in.

If you have the awareness that things can be different or that there's something different out there,

But you're feeling a little bit lost,

And you're feeling as if things don't feel as good as they used to,

Or as good as you would like them to.

So in the shedding phase of purpose,

What we're doing is we are shedding every part of our being,

Everything that's within our energy body,

Everything that's anchored in place,

All these different beliefs,

Traumas,

Programming,

Ancestral patterns,

All these different things.

We begin shedding everything that's not aligned with our authentic expression.

And this is very difficult work.

This is often what many of us experience as a dark night of the soul.

It's where we experience a lot of challenge and we really have to dig deep within ourselves and figure out who we really are and who we really are not.

And if you're in this phase,

And it's been very challenging for you,

Then this is when we often start to feel a little bit desperate about living or finding our purpose because this process of shedding is difficult.

It doesn't necessarily feel good emotionally or even physically sometimes.

And so we want to find something better.

And so this brings up a point that I want to make about purpose,

And that's to think about why you're trying to find your purpose.

What is it that you think this living your purpose idea will bring you?

Are you actually seeking to live through your authentic expression?

Is that what you're seeking?

Or are you looking to feel better?

Are you looking to be doing something different than what you're doing now?

Because there's a lot of reasons that we want to get out of what we're experiencing right now.

And so that's an important distinction to make is to figure out why you're trying to find your purpose in the first place or why you think that you're not living it right now.

And if you're in this phase three,

The shedding process and this really deep healing process of releasing what is not authentic to you,

It's very difficult and it can really bring up a lot of challenging,

Old,

Dense things that we have to work through.

And it can start to feel like we're going in the opposite direction of where we really want to be going.

But what was shared with me is that purpose is not a feeling.

It's not something that we necessarily feel good in when we're living it.

Part of purpose is shedding what is not authentic to us.

And that does not feel good.

But going through that process is part of the journey of living your purpose.

And so it's a really important part of actually getting to the point where you're living in the way that you want to be living,

Where you're feeling the way that you want to be feeling.

And this leads to phase four.

So once we get through that shedding process of phase three and we've really broken everything down and we're embodying our most authentic expression,

We've cleared out all those limitations,

The limiting beliefs that we had,

The limiting programs that were keeping us locked in old patterns.

Then we step into phase four,

Which is the anchoring phase.

And in the anchoring phase,

We begin to take action and have experiences through our newly revealed authentic expression.

And so this authentic expression has been in us all along,

But often there were many blocks in place or different filters that we've been clearing out in phase three so that our authentic expression was distorted a bit as we went through different experiences in our life.

But once that's all cleared out,

We begin having these experiences in life that are authentic.

They are an authentic expression of our true self.

And this really anchors in our authentic soul templates,

Our authentic higher level expression into our physical being and our physical experience.

And this is really what we're seeking when we're looking for spiritual growth as well as to really bring in our spiritual self and live through that in our physical experience.

And that is a major part of purpose.

So we move into this anchoring phase and this is when we start to experience life as feeling a little bit more positive because we're uplifted by the actions that we're taking.

We're feeling good about them.

We feel as if we're doing something positive and purposeful and fulfilling.

Even if we're just having a conversation with somebody at the gas station,

We can start to see the meaning in it.

And we're anchoring in our true expression into our physical life.

And this is often the phase that we're looking for when we say that we're trying to find our purpose.

But it's a phase that we cannot get to unless we complete phase three,

That shedding phase.

All right.

So once we get through phase four,

The final phase of this is what I would call the realization or actualization phase.

And this is a phase where we're just really in the flow with life.

We're just living through our authentic expression.

It shows up in every moment.

It comes back to us in abundant ways.

And there's an end to the search because it's not that we found something that wasn't with us.

It's not that we finally discovered something.

It's that there's no longer a need to look for purpose because we're already embodying our authentic expression and we're living through that in flow with life.

We're in harmony with life.

And that's phase five.

OK.

So if you are asking yourself,

What is my purpose?

How do I find my purpose?

What I want you to reflect on is what phase of purpose of this process of purpose do you think you might be in?

And my guess would be that you're likely in phase three,

The shedding process,

Because that's when we really start looking.

And when we start feeling like we're moving in the wrong direction when we're really not,

Because we're having to look back at different things from our past that can't come forward with us.

So if you're in this process of purpose and you're trying to figure out what your purpose is and you're feeling a little bit lost or things feel really hard or emotionally challenging,

There are a few reflective steps that you can take and action steps that you can take.

The first thing is to work on healing,

Work on healing your trauma,

Your limiting beliefs,

Your ancestral programming,

Cultural programming,

And these other energies that block your authentic expression.

We have to clear these out before we can really embody our purpose.

And there are no shortcuts.

This is the work that is so important.

It's such an important part of our purpose and it doesn't necessarily feel good.

And that's important to remember that purpose doesn't necessarily feel good while you're in it,

While you're living this phase three process.

But once you move through that phase,

Then you begin to feel good.

You begin to feel better because our emotional state can be a really important indicator of how much of our authentic self we're bringing forth in life.

If we're feeling unwell,

If we're feeling like we don't really like something that we're experiencing,

This can indicate that we're bringing up old wounds or old patterns to be released or that we really need to look at and bring healing to.

If we're feeling really lit up inside,

That we're really uplifted and joyful,

And what we're experiencing feels really aligned,

This is an indicator that whatever you're experiencing,

You're really bringing forth your authentic self into that experience.

And so that's the second piece of this is to look for those times when you really feel lit up in life.

And it doesn't have to be through work.

It doesn't have to be through a job.

It can be in conversation.

It can be when you're talking to people.

It can be when you're with yourself and that you're meditating.

It can be all kinds of different parts of our day and our experience.

It could be a hobby that you have.

It could be an art project or something like that.

It could be studying and learning.

All of these different things are part of purpose when we're showing up authentically.

And this means that your purpose through action might change.

So purpose is not a static thing.

It's not a static activity that you're meant to do for the rest of your life.

It's all of the actions and all of the activities that you show up to in an aligned way.

And so that's something to remember and really focus on is that it's not one specific activity or action that represents your purpose.

Your purpose will change throughout your life depending on what phase you're in,

Depending on how it's needed for you to show up in life and show up in the world.

And that will change.

So acting in the most aligned way and in the ways that really allow you to show up authentically in each moment of each day is when you are living your purpose.

So ultimately,

Your purpose is a process that you're already in.

It isn't something that you have to find somewhere out there in the world.

When you create through your authentic expression,

You're living your purpose and that can be found anywhere in every moment of every day.

So don't beat yourself up if you don't think you found your purpose.

It's likely that you're in process,

That you actually are living your purpose through shedding,

Through the release of things that aren't authentic to you.

So keep up the good work with that process and you will get to the other side of it where things start to feel better.

So I hope these insights that I've learned over the years from my guides are helpful for you.

I hope this brings you a new perspective on your purpose and maybe helps you feel like maybe you're not as lost as you think you are.

Maybe you're in a process or a phase of purpose that you didn't know that you were in and that's okay.

That's exactly where you're supposed to be.

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Thank you so much for your support and feedback and until next time,

Have a beautiful day.

Reviews

Awesome perspective 👏 this definitely helped me see a different side of where I am and Hope for my future.

I plan to revisit Finding Purpose talk. It resonates- and I need to keep a fresh focus to orient my movement forward. Highly value the idea of purpose as presence vs doing.

Oh wow you have pressed the right buttons in my mind, pathways that need opening and how to go about it... Need to listen to more of your talks for sure.... Thank you

Soo good! I am definitely in Phase 3. Thank you for explaining each phase, I will relisten often.

Incredible!! So helpful, so powerful! Namaste 🙏